Re: [tdf-discuss] Introduction/New Website Bugs

On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 8:00 PM, Bernhard Dippold <
bernhard@familie-dippold.at> wrote:

> Hi Daniel, *
>
> Welcome to our community!
>
> Daniel Neel schrieb:
>
>  Hello all. My name is Daniel Neel and I'm interested in working on
> > LibreOffice's new Drupal-based web site.
>
> I'm sorry if this disappoints you, but our new website is based on
> SilverStripe (an easy to be used CMS): http://www.libreoffice.org
>
> Once our website is in a final state, we'll be able to discuss any further
> improvement. This might be Drupal, but at the moment there are other tasks,
> that are much more urgent than such a discussion.


Oh my apologies on that. I got most of my information about where to start
on the Document Foundation wiki, and was under the impression that the
current site was a temporary fix until the Drupal site got up, and thus
decided to work on the Drupal site heh. Apologies for the misunderstanding.


>  I have experience developing with
> > (X)HTML and CSS on a couple of web sites and have dabbled with Python and
> > other technologies from time to time.
>
> At the moment our website team is forming - do you want to join?
>
> This would be great.
>
> Please subscribe to the website mailing list (by sending a mail to
> website+subscribe@libreoffice.org <website%2Bsubscribe@libreoffice.org>and reply to the automated 
> mail you get) and introduce you there, if you
> want to.


Right, I would definitely like to join. Thanks for the heads-up, I'll get
working on that.


> > Anyways, I reviewed the new LibreOffice web site and recorded issues I
> > found. Is it possible for me to fix these bugs myself, or would I need to
> > be
> > granted commit rights?
>
> At the moment the Drupal staging site is not worked on, so I'd propose to
> add your findings to the wiki:
> http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Website/Drupal/Feedback
>
> I don't know if this Drupal solution will be more than a working draft, but
> this would allow to come back to them, when the work on the LibreOffice
> website has reached a final state and our discussions on the long-term
> solution came to a conclusion.
>
> Please don't discuss any Drupal ideas at the moment, because they led to
> long and unproductive discussions in the past and we need to focus on the
> release now. If you follow the website list, you will find out, when we'll
> have the time to develop our goals and aims for the long-term website
> solution that will fit the needs of the entire community.
>
> Best regards
>
> Bernhard


Got ya, will add my notes on the wiki also. Again, my apologies for the
misunderstanding. Thanks a bunch for the information!

Thanks,

Daniel


> > ----------------------
> > Web site bugs
> >
> > All notes taken using Chromium 8.0.552.237 (70801) Ubuntu 10.10, referring
> > to the Drupal web site at http://libreofficeaustralia.org/
> >
> > Navigation bar
> >  - the sub menu of the "LibreOffice" item doesn't appear to align along
> > the
> > navigation bar's left edge, while the other items align correctly
> >
> > Home Page
> >  - "Take a tour to explore the functions and features of LibreOffice"
> > should
> > inlude a period after "LibreOffice" - all other items end in periods.
> >  - The shadows under each image might look better feathered a bit more,
> > with
> > less hard edges
> >     - The shadow under the puzzle icon doesn't appear centrally aligned
> > while the other shadows do
> >  - "Login or register to post comments Older polls" - might be useful to
> > have the links highlighted/underlined, as they're (in chrome 8)
> > indistinguishable from normal text without mousing over them.
> >     - Also in chrome 8 and firefox 3.6 the "Older polls" item should be on
> > a
> > new line - currently a little confusing
> >
> > LibreOffice/Calc
> >  - url doesn't follow the naming convention of other LibO products. Listed
> > as "../features/libreoffice-calc" rather than "../features/calc"
> >   - This also might affect the page's title which is "LibreOffice Calc |
> > LibreOffice.org" when it should be "Calc | LibreOffice.org", going by the
> > other product pages
> >   - also is the cause of a broken link on the Features page
> >
> > Download
> >  - uses an old Apple logo - not sure if their newer logos are available
> > for
> > use or not
> >  - also uses an old Ubuntu logo rather than the updated ones (located
> > here:
> > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Brand)
> >
> > Download/Extensions
> >  - "Discover new possibilities", "Extensions make document creation fun.",
> > "Explore and install now" - inconsistent use of periods
> >
> > Features
> >  - Space between heading and start of page content inconsistent with other
> > pages (the space between "Features" and "LibreOffice is a
> > comprehensive...")
> >
> > Features/Accessibility
> >  - Inconsistent spacing between heading and start of page content
> >
> > Community/
> >  - Items in the large list aren't presented in the same order as in the
> > navigation bar
> >  - Page titles are inconsistent (see Project Teams and Forums vs the other
> > items)
> >
> > Community/Project Teams
> >  - Contains links to two seperate Quality Assurance team pages, each with
> > differing content
> >
> > Community/Forum
> >  - Sub-forum titles become un-aligned depending on if there's an icon to
> > the
> > left of them (see mail icon) and if the thread has a mail icon and a
> > description of the sub-forum
> >    (potentially in other cases as well)
> >
> > News
> >  - Assuming the language bar should go below the "To suggest a news
> > article
> > please contact the News Editor team" section.
> >
> > All product pages (LibreOffice/... Calc/Writer/etc)
> >  - Inconsistent spacing between the navigation bar and the start of the
> > page's content
>
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